According to the statistics published by Pedro Sánchez of the Listín Diario, for the twelve months ending 31 December, some 2,118,380 passengers, both Dominicans and foreigners, made use of the Las Americas International Airport for arrivals and departures. Yaqui Núñez del Risco, governor of the airport, said some 1,051,546 travellers had arrived, including 483,416 Dominicans and 568,130 foreigners. He said there were 1,066,839 departures of which 511,460 were Dominicans and 555,374 were foreigners. The movement of foreigners arriving at this terminal was up by 13 percent in relation to 1994. The number of Dominicans arriving was up by 6 percent.